Renaissance woman by profession. Associate Professor @HamiltonCollege. Director of the New World Nature Project https://mackenzie-cooley.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.social/post/3mkn6ge4jus2cA must-read post by @ResObscura on whether vintage LLMs mark the beginning of a new humanistic field. Certainly they are changing the way we must think about archiving and collective voices accessible from past documents. https://resobscura.substack.com/p/are-vintage-llms-the-start-of-a-new29 Apr 2026 13:12 +0000at://did:plc:ommdnscta4fg7cvdewypb3m7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkn6ge4jus2chttps://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.social/post/3mkj6ypkemc2vVery excited about work by Nick Levine, Alec Radford, and David Duvenaud on "talkie" - a vintage LLM. Here's their post introducing it: https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie27 Apr 2026 23:11 +0000at://did:plc:ommdnscta4fg7cvdewypb3m7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkj6ypkemc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.social/post/3mjz7j7s6es2jSo often in awe of the way that people in the past were prescient - but sometimes it's fair to think "they thought WHAT?" https://contingentmagazine.org/2026/04/16/they-thought-what/21 Apr 2026 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:ommdnscta4fg7cvdewypb3m7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjz7j7s6es2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.social/post/3mhvlz7dtmc2mweird research encounter of the day: someone looked at the alphabet and thought, “great, but it needs more goblins.” honestly, correct. https://sammlungenonline.albertina.at/objects/106408/figurenalphabet25 Mar 2026 17:21 +0000at://did:plc:ommdnscta4fg7cvdewypb3m7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhvlz7dtmc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.social/post/3mgn7ckdxps2xThe Carletti book is out (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674296183), and with it my very raunchy article. Here reviewed in the Corriere Fiorentino (Corriere della Sera)! Enjoy (but not too much!).09 Mar 2026 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:ommdnscta4fg7cvdewypb3m7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgn7ckdxps2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.social/post/3me4qvnlxh225Doing research using pharmacopeias, drugs, or the history of medicine? Tomorrow's First Fridays Pharmacopeias features Stuart Anderson about his recent book, Pharmacopeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires: Making Medicines Official in Britain's Imperial World, 1618-1968. dm mcooley@hamilton.edu to join05 Feb 2026 15:56 +0000at://did:plc:ommdnscta4fg7cvdewypb3m7/app.bsky.feed.post/3me4qvnlxh225https://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.social/post/3mcx4bxj3ms23spreading the news about the Cambridge Early Modern Science and Medicine Essay Prize 2026 Competition! Early Science and Medicine and the Early Sciences Forum of the History of Science Society's prize competition for the best essay...21 Jan 2026 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:ommdnscta4fg7cvdewypb3m7/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcx4bxj3ms23https://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.social/post/3lxx3daqiok2pJoin the Historical Pharmacopeias community for our monthly conversation - “First Friday Pharmacopeias.” Conducting research on materia medica? Interested in HP (https://dalme.org/collections/historical-pharmacopeias/)? https://hopp.uwpress.org/content/66/203 Sep 2025 16:44 +0000at://did:plc:ommdnscta4fg7cvdewypb3m7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxx3daqiok2phttps://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.social/post/3lwkw45rb5s2sA mini-intro to the first part of our book, "Knowing an Empire" with @leverpress.bsky.social https://services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/K/Knowing-an-Empire17 Aug 2025 03:14 +0000at://did:plc:ommdnscta4fg7cvdewypb3m7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwkw45rb5s2shttps://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.social/post/3lwemgzzsls23"Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" unveils how these two vast empires developed comparable systems to gather, order, and wield knowledge about their local worlds in the process of empire-building. https://services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/K/Knowing-an-Empire14 Aug 2025 15:05 +0000at://did:plc:ommdnscta4fg7cvdewypb3m7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwemgzzsls23https://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.social/post/3lwd7ld66fs2r"Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue" is now out! It's open-access via Lever Press. Please check it out here: https://services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/K/Knowing-an-Empire14 Aug 2025 01:42 +0000at://did:plc:ommdnscta4fg7cvdewypb3m7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwd7ld66fs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.social/post/3ljj5icelus2aKnowing the Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue with @leverpress.bsky.social is now in proofs. The big work is already done. Now we just need to make sure the is are dotted, the ts crossed, and tails pinned to the now-extinct Iberian cebros!03 Mar 2025 23:53 +0000at://did:plc:ommdnscta4fg7cvdewypb3m7/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljj5icelus2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.social/post/3lh5ckjqshc25Impressed by Emily Beck's thoughtful oral history work on this website "Plant People," "celebrating the proliferation of plant & land-based health practices in and around Mnísota Maǩóčé" z.umn.edu/plantpeople https://z.umn.edu/plantpeople01 Feb 2025 20:01 +0000at://did:plc:ommdnscta4fg7cvdewypb3m7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh5ckjqshc25https://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.social/post/3lh4lvlkak22mGood morning, bsky folks. It's time to read about old things again. Speculation? Check. Alchemy? Check. Shoot me an email if you'd like to join this workshop with Wenrui Zhao and Vera Keller on February 24th.01 Feb 2025 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:ommdnscta4fg7cvdewypb3m7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh4lvlkak22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.social/post/3lci3xmh27c2wIt's finally coming! I have a chapter on environmental change throughout the Spanish empire in the relaciones corpus here. Get ready to learn about some extinct horses running around Iberia... [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Dec 2024 11:57 +0000at://did:plc:ommdnscta4fg7cvdewypb3m7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lci3xmh27c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/mackenziecooley.bsky.social/post/3lbfif5xae22lObsessed with this interview by Vera Keller about Intellectual Terroir and mission-driven history. Reckon with your place in important ways. https://www.klcc.org/podcast/oregon-grapevine/2024-10-08/oregon-grapevine-intellectual-terroir-and-studying-history20 Nov 2024 17:36 +0000at://did:plc:ommdnscta4fg7cvdewypb3m7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfif5xae22l